IUTAM-IASS Symposium on Deployable Structures: Theory and Applications

Scissors-Action Deployables Based on Space-Filling Polygonal Hyperboloids.- Inflatable Tensioned Membrane Waveguide Antenna Array for Space Applications.- Inflatable Triangulated Cylinders.- Folding Tensegrity Systems.- Wing Folding in Beetles.- Symmetry as a Basis for Morphological Analysis and Generation of NASA-Type Cubic Deployables.- High Precision Deployment and Shape Correction of Multi-mirror Space Designs.- Deployable Structures: What Can We Learn from Biological Structures?.- Design, Construction and Testing of the Deployable UHF Antenna for SKYNET 4 Stage 2.- Finite Element Analysis and Deployable Structures.- Foldable Rigid Connections.- Combining Active and Passive Sub-Structures in Snap-Through-Type Deployable Structures.- Florín System.- Scaling of Nonlinear Phenomena with Emphasis on Thin Film Deployable Structures.- Wing Folding in Insects: a Natural, Deployable Structure.- Microdynamics of Lightweight Precision Deployable Spacecraft Structures.- Bi-stable Composite Slit Tubes.- Thermal-Structural Performance of Rigid Panel Solar Arrays.- Self-Deployable Antenna Using Centrifugal Force.- Deployable Swimming Pool Enclosures.- A New Approach to Retractable Membrane Structures.- Accurate Design Sensitivities for Deployable Structures by Exact Differentiation of Rigid-Body Modes.- Folding/Unfolding Manner of Tree Leaves as a Deployable Structure.- Foldable Bar Structures on a Sphere.- Coupled Mechanisms in Biological Deployable Structures.- Computational Issues in the Modeling of Wrinkling During Parachute Deployment.- Development of Space Inflatable/Rigidizable Structures Technology.- Ovep onstrained Sliding Mechanisms.- The Kinematics of Large Rotations Using Clifford Algebra.- A FEM for Complex Deployable Structure Analysis.- Tension Truss Antenna —Concept, Reality and Future.- Constructional Solutions for Two-Way-Fold-Deployable Space Trusses.- Bending of Three-Dimensional Pantographic Column.- Fundamentals of STEM Mechanics.- Sandwich Structures with Negative Poisson’s Ratio for Deployable Structures.- Dynamical Analysis of the Deployment Process of Tethered Satellite Systems.- Deployment of a Panel by Tape-Spring Hinges.- Deployment Dynamics of Flexible Beams.- Systematic Design of Micro and Macro Systems.- Conceptual Study on Cylindrical Deployable Space Structures.- Inflation of Rolled Tubes.- Controlling the Performance and the Deployment Parameters of a Self-Locking Satellite Boom.- Dynamics of Spacecraft Antenna During Deployment.- Tools of Analysis on Mobility and Structural Morphology.- The AstroMesh Deployable Reflector.- Dynamics of Large Deployable Structures.- Double-Chain Mechanisms.- Design, Integration and Testing of an Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar.- A New Approach to Design of Retractable Roofs.- Closing Session.- Author Index.